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Edited by Ichthyosaur:
2/4/2013 8:03:08 PM
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Why I'm against the death penalty
I'm not against it because I feel pity for murderers, or because I believe that it makes us killers or drags us down to their level, which I don't believe it does. I'm against it because I don't believe it's a true punishment. I believe it's an escape for the convict, so they will never have to face what they did, they will never feel true guilt, they will never truly suffer like they deserve to. Instead they get the peace of death, and leave those whose lives they ruined behind to suffer, while they rest in eternal sleep.
Instead, I believe in harder prisons, and life in prison actually meaning life.
Discuss
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Life in prison may be a worse fate for some, but I doubt most. Even if prisons were worse, I doubt many would prefer to die. But, if the intent is to somehow make prisons worse than death, what do you do about the fact that innocent people are still routinely convicted? That's my objection to the death penalty or any sort of cruel punishment, not because of a universal respect for life, but because I do respect the innocent. Until our courts can be shown 100% accurate, I don't see how we can consider the death penalty or brutal prisons justice.
